Reuters.com – Reporting by Chris Michaud; Editing by Doina Chiacu
New York (Reuters) – Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored by the gay media watchdog group GLAAD on Monday for her reporting on transgender children and she said the award was among the most important she had even received.
“You can forget all the Emmys,” Walters said in accepting the award for television newsmagazine journalism at the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards. “This means more to me.”
The veteran television personality won for the story “My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children,” which aired on ABC’s “20/20” and examined the lives and struggles of young children who experienced conflicted gender identity, feeling their true sex was the opposite of